Word: greeks
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From his father Talese learned that he had a proud and fascinating heritage, albeit not untypical for a son of southern Italy. His surname derived from Telese -- from a Greek word meaning "to initiate to mysteries" -- a town in Italy's lower boot that had been partly destroyed by the Romans in 214 B.C. because its inhabitants were too friendly to Hannibal's Carthaginians. His family, however, was rooted in Maida, 65 miles northeast of the Strait of Messina, which separates Sicily from the rest of Italy. This is a craggy, nearly treeless countryside that has seen more than...
...have to be realistic. We are willing to have a political solution, because that will ease Turkey's financial burden in maintaining troops in northern Cyprus ((where the Turkish Cypriot community is located; Greek Cypriots live in the south)). The basis for any solution should be United Nations Resolution 649 ((which calls for establishment of an independent, bicommunal federal republic on the island of Cyprus)). You can't force the two communities to live together as if you were making a man and woman marry against their will. We are pushing the leaders of northern Cyprus to be reasonable. Some...
With no student center or Greek system, Harvard doesn't exactly have the reputation of a "party school...
...When I got into this race, it was not becauseI thought the earth was crying for a Greekdemocrat from Massachusetts to run," Tsongasacknowledged. He said, however, that he was proudof his Greek heritage and that he wouldn'tapologize for being from Massachusetts until Bushapologized for being born there...
...Bush Administration would have preferred to see him tried in the U.S. But when Palestinian Mohammed Rashid, 40, was sentenced by a Greek court to 18 years in prison after being found guilty of premeditated murder in the 1982 bombing of a Pan American jet, Washington felt it had scored a victory...